Mobycon Unlimited: April 2023
This month, we welcomed a new employee, Junior Mobility Consultant?Anna Tailliez, and we're excited to share updates from?Georgia,?Norway, and, of course,?the Netherlands! We also published our?2022 Dutch Annual Report, detailing all the exciting projects with clients in the Netherlands that we worked on last year.?
For even more updates, and information about the conferences and workshops we've attended this month, check out our blog here:?https://mobycon.com/mobycon-updates/
Welcome Anna Tailliez, our new Junior Mobility Advisor! She recently graduated from the?University of Technology of Compiègne with a Master of Engineering and previously completed a 6-month internship at Mobycon. Anna is excited to continue supporting international projects in her new full-time position. Read her introduction?here.
Last year, Mobycon created a Tactical Urbanism Playbook as part of the Safe Way To School project initiated by Batumi City Hall, supported by?GIZ’s Mobility4Cities, and carried out by Mobycon in collaboration with local partner?Black Sea Eco Academy. The project culminated in a week-long tactical urbanist experiment in which the street in front of School #14 was closed to motorized traffic and opened to pedestrians, cyclists, children playing. Read the update and check out the playbook?here!
We also recorded a?Mobycon Academy?with Communications and Engagement Advisor Melissa Bruntlett and Rusudan Zhozhadze, head of Municipal Policy Development at Batumi City Hall, to reflect on the pilot. Watch the video?here!
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Mobycon, together with partners from the Netherlands, developed “The Good Street,” a city planning approach that seeks to strike a balance between place and flow within the urban environment. In her latest blog, Sustainable Mobility Consultant?Anna Wyner?explains the need to shift from a car-centric to people-centric approach to transportation planning and the 7 principles behind the Good Street framework. Read about it?here?(originally published by the Israeli Public Policy Institute on?March 20, 2023).
Last month, Sustainable Mobility Consultant and Street Designer?Robin van der Griend?and Communications and Engagement Advisor?Melissa Bruntlett?delivered a workshop in Stavanger, named?Norway’s Best Cycling City, to help the city build on its success and identify opportunities to strategically develop their cycle streets into a full-fledged cycle network. Read the update?here.
A couple months ago, we shot a Mobycon Academy Short about the new underwater bike parking garage at Amsterdam Centraal Station. Since then, over 11,000 people have seen the video! In case you haven't yet, check it out?here.
Our Dutch team recently published its annual report, giving an overview of the exciting projects we had the chance to work on last year in the Netherlands. We're proud to share the work we've done to help achieve our mission: "to make the world less dependent on cars," and hope you find some inspiration in our work. Read the report (in Dutch)?here.